The Daily 5
The Daily Five: Friday, 03 July, 2009
Massachusetts ocean energy; Biodiesel Pipeline Starts Operations; GM Says Volt to be sportier than Prius, Insight; President Obama announces new light bulb standards; Solar vest won’t win you any friends
Massachusetts Master Plan for Ocean Energy. Massachusetts has released a draft of a plan that would govern the permitting and management of projects such as tidal [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 02 July, 2009
Bridge Between Private and Public Transport; Tires made of orange oil; Solar aircraft to circumnavigate the globe; Lemon-juice & water powered clock; Fake trees helping to clean up CO2
A Bridge Between Private and Public Transport. It’s a small non-polluting vehicle that not only works on a giant organized system that reduces traffic and travel time [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 01 July, 2009
Big Dig House; Tougher LEED standards; Scion iQ coming soon; Magic Cube; More solar arrays on public lands
Big Dig House reuses materials from the Big Dig in Boston. The structural system for this 3,400sf house is comprised of steel and concrete discarded from Boston’s Big Dig, utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials from elevated [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 30 June, 2009
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel; Anheuser-Busch Taps Landfill Gas for Houston Brewery; LED clock munches bugs and converts carcasses into energy; Storing Hydrogen Using Chicken Feathers; Toyota Prius vs. VW Clean Diesel
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel. Scientists have been trying for years to find a non-food source for ethanol. A company in Bonita Springs, Florida, [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 29 June, 2009
Electric lawnmowers, Solar supercar, Waterless washing machine, Smart ForTwo $99, Sacramento smart power grid
Trade-in Your Gas Guzzler for an Electric Mower in Southern California The South Coast Air Quality Management District is sponsoring a program called “Mow Down Air Pollution” which offers LA, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino county residents an opportunity to trade [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 26 June, 2009
Microsoft’s energy management tool; Audi Pushes Clean Diesel on Facebook; $4.5 billion in smart grid grants coming out;Message from Al Gore – Clean Energy Bill (Video); Solar-powered Android cell phone
Microsoft’s energy management tool. While most everyone knows that Google has been developing one, I had no idea that Microsoft was too. Their device, like Google’s, [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 25 June, 2009
Toyota’s solar-powered car; Tidal & wave power among the most expensive; All-electric smart fortwo; Monolab solar skyscraper; Green energy investments overtake fossil fuel investment
Toyota developing a car that would charge only by solar energy. The concept for their solar car would get some of its power from solar cells on the vehicle and the [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 24 June, 2009
Hot eco-cars that go zoom-zoom; Solar tent; Tesla Motors to get DOE loan; Solarwind turbine; Supercomputer doubles as space heater
You don’t need to drive a bad-looking car to save the planet. The first car on the list, the Aero EV, has a twin motor AESP producing a jaw-dropping 1,000 hp, goes 60 mph [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 23 June, 2009
Efficient LED lighting on wingtips; Solar LED hat; Toyota’s new tiny car, the iQ3; Solar-powered Air Conditioner; High-altitude wind machines powering NYC
Efficient LED lighting on Airbus wingtips. Airbus A320 planes are about to get an energy-efficiency upgrade in the form of LED lights on their wingtips, which will last up to 20,000 hours before [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 22 June, 2009
UNM-Taos solar power; Scania Concept truck; Honda’s ultra-cheap hybrids; Solar-powered yacht; Combining wind power with electric vehicles
UNM-Taos’ new solar array will provide for all of the school’s electric needs. The local branch of the University of New Mexico here in Taos is about to go all-solar. The 500-kilowatt array, which is comprised of [...]
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